Although their enemies have greatly outnumbered them, there were no fears as they wait for the person they’re hoping for.
“That’s right! Don’t you die on me girls!” A woman angrily yet happily shouted as if she were enjoying this situation.
She was wearing a tattered and worn out crimson colored armor while holding her two swords which was already bending slightly and some cracks on the blade could be seen.
She was the [ Iron Maiden Guild ] leader, Angela!
Dancing like a war goddess in the midst of the monster’s encirclement.
Slashing and killing, leaving a mountain of corpses on the ground.
Aside from the guild leader, another woman was also in the midst of her killing spree.
Countless fire balls danced in the air as she shot it towards the monsters.
This was Marie…
“[ Fire Bullets ]!!!”
Seeing this unsightly scene, the S-BOSS monster; The Serpent King, finally couldn’t contain himself and shouted angrily…
“What the hell are you bastards doing!!! You can’t even kill some mere little human girls?!!! COBARD! PYTHON! Finished this unsightly farce!!!”
With his voice, the two BOSS monsters finally moved, bringing endless despair to the struggling girls.
All the girls who heard the monster’s voice immediately paled. Their body jerked and trembled uncontrollably.
The A-mini boss monster; Lizard General Cobard immediately went towards the fighting Angela while the C-mini boss monster; Black Scaled Python targeted Marie with unbelievable speed.
At this time, all the girls finally felt a tinged of fear and despair. They all thought, or maybe hope should be the right word.
They hope that before Hero or the reinforcement came, the BOSS monster would not make their move… like a king would not come his way just to kill a lowly commoner….
But reality was cruel.
Two of the BOSS monster moved towards their strongest damage dealers and fighters!
‘….I, I must do something!’ Seeing the incoming despair, Angela aimed her swords at the Lizard General.
Her gaze unmistakably carried killing intent.
Thus, she immediately activated the [ Dual Sword Priestess ] own innate skill; [ Dance of the last Sacrifice ] to kill if not injured the BOSS monster gravely using the 30 second double status boost.
This skill enabled her to double her current status for 30 seconds.
Because of that, her strength, speed and power became doubled than before.
However in that moment, a chill ran along her spine because her instinct warned her to the imminent danger.
Immediately, from her side the Lizard General who should be in her front was now beside her.
Then realization struck her, even with her speed she still can’t compete with the BOSS monster.
‘Ah! So this is the power of an A-BOSS monster?… I’m sorry everyone, I failed you’ She closed her eyes and braced herself for the impact.
BANG!
“Aaghh!!”
Although she was still wearing her [ Rare ] grade armor; [ Crimson Battle Armor ], she still received more than half of the damage from the monster.
She was blown parallel to the ground, and then crashed and still continued skidding on the ground after finally stopped and lay down helplessly.
Her [ Rare ] armor was now in pieces, leaving her with only a thin brown leather cloth.
Fortunately, her body was that of a player because if not her arm would have been bending into an impossible angle.
*Cough! * Cough!
Coughing up blood, she struggled to stand up but she can’t.
When she saw her [ HP ] bar have only a millimeter left, she couldn’t help but let a bitter smile as she closed her eyes.
“Guild leader!” Loise shouted with a tone filled with despair.
She turned her head and saw Marie and the others struggling to fight the huge snake. Gritting her teeth, she rushed towards where Angela was.
“If we died, we’ll die together!!! Damn it!!!”
Loise had realized it herself.
She realized that no matter what they do, how much they struggle they would not survive this predicament.
The reinforcement might be already outside at this moment but they would never make it here immediately.
In regards to the boy who everyone hope to come, she thought that even if he rushed towards here she doubted that he will managed to arrived that fast even if he was the strongest player.
Thinking about it, she let out a wry smile and run towards their admirable leader.
When she finally managed to reach her, she quickly embraced her and said,
“Even if you die, I won’t let you die alone. Were in this together so will die together!”
Supporting Angela, Loise was frowning while smiling.
Angela on the other hand, used her solid right arm to grasp the hand Loise was using to support her while wearing a troubled smile.
“You’re crazy.”
An ominous shadow appeared before the two.
—-It was the A-BOSS monster Lizard General; Cobard. It slithers for a second as it looked down the two.
Countless cries and screams resounded not so far from them. Their voice where filled with despair and fear.
The monster raised its egg shaped sword and just as he was about to let it drop…
At that moment….
KA – BOOOOOOOOM!!!!
The ceiling above the General fell as a loud explosion seemed to cause even the whole dungeon to tremble and together with the falling rubbles, a dazzling figure with fiery wings and tail gently landed on the ground.
In his arms was a woman with pale complexion and a red haired little girl whose eyes were filled with excitement.
All the people, including the monsters stood frozen in place.
As the dust gradually thinned out, a figure covered with flames, have fiery wings and tail was standing.
A silent not fitted in the battlefield ruled the room.
No one, not even a thing understood what had happened as they only stood there in bewilderment.
Under the countless stares, the figure gently put the girls in his arms gently on the floor as he survey the surroundings.
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When he looked over his shoulder, he saw two girls staring at him dumbfounded while embracing each other.
As if whispering in every people present’s ear, a low calm voice resounded.
“It’s enough… you all did very well.”
As his gentle, yet firm voice resounded inside the place, countless bodies immediately jerked and trembled.
No one could say anything as the accumulated tears in their eyes slowly fell.
Even the two behind him couldn’t help but feels an indescribable calm surged over them. Their tense body gradually relaxes, bit by bit.
“W, who…. are… you?” Angela weakly muttered in daze.
The figure whose cheeks slightly covered with fiery scales, soften and turned into a bright smile…
“You did very well… I commend you… As for me, my name’s…”
“Hero!?”
When the figure was in the middle of his introduction, he was immediately cut off by a voice. Turning his body, the figure smiled wryly and said,
“Hey Marie… Sorry I’ve gotten late somehow. I never thought that even in the sky, there’s a traffic jam!”
Hein patted his shoulders leisurely,
“Well, they did say Heroes can only be called heroes when they arrive late before saving the damsels in distress~ Right?”
The moment the person turned around, a lightning ran through Marie’s body.
Her heart had been cold due to despair they were facing but now a sudden huge fire lighted up as her heart began to throb intensely.
Unconsciously, her unwavering eyes began to waver as beads of tears continuously fall down.
“He …”
“”””HERO!!!!”””” She wanted to call out but was overlapped by a numerous voice filled with excitement while rushing towards the figure.
All the girls unconsciously run towards Hein, leaving the dumbfounded monsters they were fighting as they frantically rushed towards him.
Seeing this, Hein couldn’t help but trembled thinking whether he will try to evade the incoming stampede or not?
But before he could move, someone suddenly hugged him from behind making him unable to evade and was crushed.
Looking at the girl who hugged behind him, he was suddenly struck by nostalgia.
“Aren’t you Froline? What’s the sudden action?”
It was Froline.
Hein remembered her as someone who is always together with Marie.
Every time they met, she will always avoid him with a red face making him think he did something bad to her.
Looking at the seven girls sobbing face while frantically hugging him, he realized he have seen them before but just couldn’t remember where…
“Hic… Hero… Hic…” Froline cried.
Just what’s going on here?…. well, I guess it can’t be helped. I will give them some service this time, they must have been scared by this situation~
Putting down his flames and changing into his human form is quite easy because right now he was just in his Demi-Human form.
With just a click in his mind, his fiery scale and flames immediately vanished in thin air.
Unbeknownst to them, all of the girls present were now gathered around them.
Even Marie who rushed to their side was pouting and was clearly angry but she didn’t do anything but only stared at the group of monsters who was just standing there, without doing anything.
Hein took a deep breath and gently separate himself with the others and said, “Brace yourselves, there still an enemy out t—”
BOOM!
Before he could finish saying anything, an explosion rang out from the mountain of rubbles. Suddenly a figure came out while glaring daggers on Hein.
When it started moving, it suddenly stopped as Hein completely vanish from his sight.
Even the girls who were with him were left dumbfounded when he vanished.
However at that instant,
*Slash *Slash *Slash *Slash *Slash *Slash *Slash
Thud!
The Lizard General silently fell to the ground under everyone’s dumbfounded and stunned eyes.
Seven strikes swung from the Lizard General’s back without him knowing. It never expected to be killed with merely seven slash of a sword…
However, it didn’t know it wasn’t just mere slashes as it was a combo skills made by Hein.
[ Shadow Steps ] + [ Hide ] + [ Mana Channeling ] + [ Body Strengthening ] + [ Assassination ] + [ Life Drain ] + [ Wind Blade ] + [ Deep Cut ] coupled with the [ Unique ] grade [ Rune Demonic Blade ] who was getting powered up by Hein’s mana making its attack by a hundred fold and the newly acquired power of the dragon and phoenix……
…… there is just no way a mere A-mini BOSS can receive it.
Silence once again fell in the room as the girls can only look at the lying A-mini BOSS dead with wide eyes.
Especially Angela who couldn’t even last a second after fighting it.
Her eyes involuntarily twitched as she eyed the unmoving corpse with wide open mouth and then directed her dumbfounded gaze to the one who caused it.
Hein Vilestone, no his real name is Hero Stein.
She looked at him as if she were looking at a monster.
Just how strong can someone be to kill an A-mini BOSS monster in an instant! Yes, an instant kill!!!
Noticing her gaze, Hein only let out a wry smile and said,
“In your fight just a while ago, it’s not that its speed is far more superior than yours… you can say you have almost reach its speed however he probably use [ Teleportation ] when it attack you~ That’s why you’re defeated easily~”
Actually Hein was watching his map using his [ Search ] skill.
The moment Angela moved, the red dot of the A-mini BOSS monster suddenly disappeared and then reappeared beside her so Hein guessed that it used a [ Teleportation ] skill.
Moving his gaze towards the swarm of monster, he took a step forward and confidently smiled,
“Well, you guys don’t move even a bit from here. I will be taking this battle alone~”
He confidently declared.